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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume14-hour count · Oct 15, 2025
This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 2,744 northbound vehicles, or 56% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 551. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 725 vehicles in the hour from 4:30 p.m., 56% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (466). Heavy vehicles made up 0.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.
Peak hours: 466 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 725 from 4:30 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
2022 was the peak year (13 collisions), and 2025 closed with 9. 17% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 17 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 2, 2026.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jul 16, 2007.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 87 | #1279 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 15 | #1216 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 60 | |
| Fail to remain | 17 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 12 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 5 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 1 | latest Jul 16, 2007 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Sewells Rd between Old Finch Ave and Steeles Ave E (135 m away) recorded an average of 52 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 59 km/h. That segment carries about 3,300 vehicles a day. Old Finch Ave between Sewells Rd and Rouge Park Finch Meander Trl measured slower: 40 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 47 km/h (Nov 2023).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Finch Ave · Sewells Rd – Rouge Park Finch Meander Trl · 122 m | Nov 2023 · 3 days | 1,420 | 40 km/h | 47 km/h | 50 km/h |
| Sewells Rd · Old Finch Ave – Steeles Ave E · 135 m | Nov 2024 · 3 days | 3,299 | 52 km/h | 59 km/h | 65 km/h |
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 131 39 nearest 571 m · 7 min
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- no station within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 1 mapped lot within 500 m, 24 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks
- Harvest Moon Park1.2 km · 14 min
- Schools
- Heritage Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- St Bede Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.3 km · 16 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
Not within a walk: a restaurant or café, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a community centre, licensed child care, a library or a public washroom.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Sewells & Old Finch (North) a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 87 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.
How busy is Sewells & Old Finch (North)?
A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 15, 2025, 30% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Sewells & Old Finch (North) a walkable intersection?
Sewells & Old Finch (North) scores 5 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: nearest park 1.2 km; nearest school 1.1 km; 2 routes within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Sewells & Old Finch (North)?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Sewells Rd between Old Finch Ave and Steeles Ave E (November 2024), found an average of 52 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 59 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Sewells & Old Finch (North)?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 24 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 1,310 spaces — 1 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Sewells & Old Finch (North) by transit?
Bus routes 131, 39 within 1 km.
What neighbourhood is Sewells & Old Finch (North) in?
Sewells & Old Finch (North) is in Morningside Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 144). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Oct 15, 2025.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 25 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.82531, -79.19954 · centreline node 13441718.